Colin Quinn - cool or fool?

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I think he "airs" a lot of shit that people are actually saying and laughing at "out there" (laughing = shaky consensus established between comedian and audience). He's big enough, at the very least, to invite people on his show that he knows will rip him a new one, who will bond with his audience against him. In a way, "anything for a laugh" is the great equalizer. But you're right, it's generally a dumbed-down version of that NPR show whose name I can't remember...

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 06:00 (twenty years ago) link

i still trust the Daily Show more than any other nightly newscast.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 06:19 (twenty years ago) link

the daily show slips into that "anything for a joke" humor sometimes, but more often there is a definite political point of view, an agenda even, behind the humor.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 10:35 (twenty years ago) link

I think Colin Quinn has done the world a great service by exposing how socially evil Ben Stein really is. (DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE GENIAL BRANIAC FROM "Win Ben Stein's Money"; HE WILL EAT YOUR BABIES)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

he was a nixon speechwriter for cryin' out loud!

(maybe everybody already knows that)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 12:25 (twenty years ago) link

I knew that, but he came across as so genial and nice on his own show that I figured either he wasn't as evil as I had previously imagined or he had mellowed somewhat since those days.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

He totally reminds me of every rich Republican I've ever gotten drunk with...

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

eight years pass...

his twitter account is really the pinnacle of his comedic career, isn't it?

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link

it is, and maybe I haven't paid him enough attention lately, but it's a totally different style of humor than what he's known for

― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Monday, 30 April 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link

really it was an inevitability that the pinnacle of his career wouldn't involve him speaking

― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link

^^^

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 April 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link

Twitter ideally suited for someone who can't form sentences

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 April 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link

he can WRITE sentences, he just can't read them off a teleprompter and recite them

― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

trolling so hard right now

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link

easily one of the best instances of "I'm not racist, but..." ever

― frogbs, Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link

https://twitter.com/#!/iamcolinquinn/status/203233057770188800
https://twitter.com/#!/iamcolinquinn/status/203233290012991488
https://twitter.com/#!/iamcolinquinn/status/203233539662163968

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link

loved the "this is our country" ref too

― frogbs, Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link

this guy should be shot out of a cannon into a brick wall

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link

I get what he's doing. I'm just not sure a) he's doing it effectively enough to be successful or b) that it's in any way necessary or advisable. Maybe wait until, like, 2212, when we can all look back at the silly racial strife from centuries past and have a good laugh about it together?

― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link

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